6331. Robinson, Charles H.

Hausa Grammar – With Exercises, Readings, and Vocabularies, and Specimens of Hausa Script.

Fifth Edition, Revised (Eleventh Impression). London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1941. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. VII, 218 pages. Fold-out grammar-table within rearboard-pocket. Hardcover [publisher’s original orange cloth] with lettering on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Scoff marks, shelfwear and fading to boards evident. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Binding firm and strong. Preowner’s details on front endpaper (C.E.Wortley – R.A.F. Regiment – August 1942).

6332. Robinson, Charles Napier.

The British Tar in Fact and Fiction. The poetry, pathos, and humour of the sailor’s life. With introductory chapters on the place of the sea officer and seaman in naval history and historical literature by John Leyland.

Reprint of the 1909 Edition. Washington, Singing Tree Press, 1968. 13.5 cm x 22 cm. XXIII, 520 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece in colour and one hundred and thirty reproductions of old prints, engravings, and woodcuts, in black and white. Original hardcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. A slight stain on front cover. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard.

6333. Robinson, Lennox.

Eight Short Stories.

London, G.P.Putnam’s Sons, no year [c.1919]. Small Octavo. 114 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The dustjacket carries a portrait of Lennox Robinson on the cover. The rare dustjacket with some fraying and two corners missing. The Volume itself in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With a private entry of the preowner to the endpaper.

6334. Robinson, Mary.

Walsingham; or The Pupil of Nature, A Domestic Story. By Mary Robinson, Author of Angelina – Hubert de Sevrac – The Widow – Vancenza, &c. &c.&c.

First Irish Edition. In Two Volumes (complete Set). Dublin, Printed by B. Smith for P.Wogan, C.Brown, H.Colbert, W.Porter and J.Rice, 1798. Octavo (12 cm x 17,5 cm). 336, 322 pages. Hardcover / Modern half-leather bound to the style of the 18th-century with spinelabels. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only to the edges and two tiny lesions to the titlepage of the first Volume. Faded dampstain to some pages of the lower bookblock of Volume II. While the bookblock is generally used and has the occasional very faint stain and a minor tear to a page, the set is in very good or even better condition ! Extremely scarce !

6335. [Robinson, Sir Joseph B.] Weinthal, Leo [Editor].

Memories, Mines and Millions. Being the Life of Sir Joseph B. Robinson, Bart. Compiled and edited by Leo Weinthal.

London, Simpkin Marshall, 1929. 19 cm x 25 cm. Frontispiece, 247 pages. Five high-quality, tipped-in, vintage monochrome photographs, including frontispiece on 4 plates. Besides the vintage photographs numerous illustrations throughout. Illustrations show for example action on the Pniel Diamond Diggings in 1875, Ferreira’s Camp in Johannesburg, 1886, Pretoria in 1875 / Caricatures of Robinson in “The Moon”, “Pretoria Press” “Truth” etc. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Lower corners slightly rubbed. Illegible name of preowner on titlepage. Interior is bright and clean. Pencilled underlining to page 35.

6336. Robinson, Wendy.

Exploring Silence. A revised version of a talk first given to the annual conference of the Servants of Christ the King in 1973.

Oxford, SLG Press, 1982. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 22 pages. Original pamphlet. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Fairacres Publication 36]

6337. Robinson, William.

The Wild Garden.

Facsimile of 1894 Edition. London, The Scolar Press, 1977. 15 cm x 23 cm. XXXIV, 304 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6338. Roche Ardill, John.

The Closing of the Irish Parliament.

Dublin/ London, Hodges, Figgis & Co./ Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1907. 18.4cm x 12.4cm. 146 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very rare in any condition but scarce in this excellent condition !

6339. Roche, Aloysius.

In the Track of the Gospel – An Outline of the Christian Apostolate from Pentecost to the Present.

London, The Catholic Book Club, 1953. 14 cm x 22 cm. 200 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6340. Roche, Regina Maria [Author of “The Children of the Abbey”].

Clermont – A Tale.

Second Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). Dublin, Printed by William Porter, 1799. Small-Octavo (11,5 cm x 17,5 cm). Volume I: 269 pages / Volume II: 326 (of 329) pages [3 pages missing at the end]. Hardcover / Modern, very decorative half-leather bindings with replicated spinelabels in the style of the 18th century. Both Volumes in protective Mylar and now housed in a bespoke Solander Box. Name of Richard Meade of Ballymartle on titlepage of both Volumes. Minor lesion and tear to titlepage of Volume II. Overall very good ! Extremely scarce publication in first or second edition !